Lorain/Elyria, OH
Archive for May 20th, 2008
Bengal turned teacher suspended from classroom
MOUNT HEALTHY, Ohio (AP) — A Cincinnati-area high school teacher and coach who once played for the Bengals has been suspended by school officials who say he made inappropriate comments to female students.
Mount Healthy City Schools Superintendent David Horine says Keith Rucker did not proposition a student, but he wouldn’t describe the nature of [...]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
This weekend, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” is coming to a theater near you. So I decided to take a look around the net for some trivia about the film.
I found far and away the best site to get movie information is IMDB.com, the Internet Movie Database. It’s one of those [...]
Demjanuk again facing deportation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Monday that an alleged former Nazi death camp guard has exhausted all legal avenues for trying to remain in the United States and the government remains committed to deporting him.
The department commented after the Supreme Court refused to step into the [...]
ALERT: Sen. Ted Kennedy has malignant brain tumor
BOSTON (AP) — A cancerous brain tumor caused the seizure Sen. Edward M. Kennedy suffered over the weekend, doctors said Tuesday in a grim diagnosis for one of American politics’ most enduring figures.
Doctors for the Massachusetts Democrat say tests conducted after Kennedy suffered a seizure this weekend show a tumor in his left parietal [...]
Susan N. Lansdowne
Susan "Suzy" N. Lansdowne, 54, of Elyria, died Sunday, May 18, 2008, at home, following a long illness.
She was born in Cleveland July 22, 1953, and lived in Sheffield Lake most of her life, moving to Elyria to live with her sister four years ago.
She was [...]
Sullivan A. Burnsworth Sr.
Sullivan A. “Bus” Burnsworth Sr., 81, of North Ridgeville, passed away Monday, May 19, 2008, at his home, following a long illness. He was born in McClellandtown, Pa., and had been a resident of North Ridgeville for the past 53 years, moving from Elyria.
Mr. Burnsworth served [...]
Hit-and-run puts cyclist in critical condition
ELYRIA — Robert L. Anderson was riding his bicycle to his weekend job at Burger King on West River Road early Saturday morning when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver.
Monday, the 28-year-old man who lives on Cascade Street was in critical condition at Huron Hospital in Cleveland.
Christy Zedell, Anderson’s fiancee [...]
Cavs have plenty to prove, improve as they look to future
INDEPENDENCE — Missed shots, missed defensive assignments and missed opportunities will haunt the Cavaliers for the entire offseason. Cleveland came painfully close to upsetting the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference semifinals, only to come up five points short in the decisive seventh game Sunday. It was a heartbreaking [...]
Sons sue after finding out mother’s ashes were dug up, moved
AMHERST — Roberta Yates’ simple headstone lies at the bottom of a small slope off the side of the road at Crownhill Cemetery.
Her cremated remains, however, are buried in Rittman.
And her three sons didn’t learn their mother — buried in the Amherst cemetery at city expense in 1995 — [...]
Patrick Grant Keys
Patrick Grant Keys, 57, of Dublin, died at home Sunday, May 18, 2008, after a long illness. He was the son of J. Grant and Mary Keys of Elyria. Born in Elyria, he was a 1968 graduate of Elyria Catholic High School and in 1972, [...]